Swift: Apple’s New Language for iOS

At about 10am (PST) today we had a bit of an unusual traffic spike here at SitePoint HQ. A 2002 article about Swift 3D v3 quickly became our most popular article, and as I write this about six hours later it remains in the second-most clicked article today.

After 20 years of favoring Objective-C, Apple is now striking out on its own with a language apparently years in the making. The new language emphasizes speed (hence the name), safety and an interactive approach to development. But devs nervous about having to move wholesale into a new language can be reassured that Swift code can work alongside the old Objective-C in the same app.

Adam is SitePoint's head of newsletters, who mainly writes Versioning, a daily newsletter covering everything new and interesting in the world of web development. He has a beard and will talk to you about beer and Star Wars, if you let him.